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Article: Writing in a State of Transition - Nadine Gordimer's latest collection of short stories describes moments of transition from apartheid to the present as lives are changed by insight or action.(Loot and Other Stories)(Book Review)
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- The World and I
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- July 1, 2003
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Judith Chettle is a South Africa--born writer, now living in the United States, and a frequent contributor to The World & I .
LOOT
And Other Stories
Nadine Gordimer
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003
272 pp., $24.00
Writers from South Africa, like all artists, naturally hope to transcend the zeitgeist, the mood of the moment, and reach that heady region where universal values endure. Sometimes, however, circumstances conspire, as they did in South Africa with apartheid and in eastern Europe with communism, to trap them in a public square that requires a political response, obligating them to protest as well as bear witness to the conditions they ...